2. Not Promoting The Right Products/Services

So how do you know if a product/service is right or wrong for you to promote?

It depends on several factors. Let’s see the factors.

The product/service is not relevant to your niche. For example, it’s irrelevant to promote an SEO tool on a recipe blog.

The product/service quality is not good, but it offers high commission rates. Avoid these types of products. Even if you get some sales, in the long term it will decrease your credibility.

The product/service is new on the market. Always remember, popular products convert better.

So always try to promote the products/services that are relevant and popular in your niche.

3. Not Having Proper Knowledge of The Products/Services That Your Are Promoting

It’s not like you have to use and test all the products/services that you are promoting on your blog. But it’s essential to have proper knowledge of the affiliate products/services.

This way you will be able to solve your readers’ problems in better ways. For example, if you are promoting HostGator on your blog, you need to know how HostGator can help in starting a blog and other services of HostGator.

And if possible, it’s better to test the products/services before promoting it on your blog. It will increase your trustability.

4. Not Using An Affiliate Link Management Plugin

This is a common mistake that almost every affiliate marketers make.

But this mistake can turn out to be a big one if you are not using an affiliate link management system for a while.

Imagine, somedays your highest revenue generating affiliate program decides to change their affiliate platform, and they want you to use a new affiliate link.

How would you change all the affiliate links that you’ve inserted on the blog posts? You have to find and change the links manually.

But if you are using a link management plugin, you can do it within one minute.

Make sure that post URL contain the main keywords and keep it short and simple.

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Use heading tags properly.

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Add images and videos to blog post. Never publish a blog post without having any image.

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Add internal and external links. Try to add at least one external link.

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Add LSI Keywords in your blog post.

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Make your blog post engaging. I use Thrive Architect to make blog post engaging.

After publishing the blog, start promoting it on social media and other platforms.

It takes some time to get rank in Google. In the meantime, try to get some backlinks for your blog post.

Once you start getting traffic from Google search, you will start getting affiliate sales.

9. Not Building An Email List

This is a common mistake that every blogger make.

Though the main purpose of building an email list is not generating affiliate sale only, a list can help you to build an audience that will buy products from you.

Your list is immune to Google updates. Even if Google starts sending less traffic, you can get traffic from your list.

Most of the bloggers don’t build the list for mainly two reasons -

Don’t bother to create an ebook or course for list building.

Don’t want to invest money in Email Marketing Service.

Here’s how you can solve the problem.

Choose a popular blog post from your blog and turn it into an eBook. And then ask your readers to subscribe to download the eBook.

Get started with MailChimp. It offers you to have 2000 subscribers in the free plan.

This way you can get started with list building.

10. Not Investing Money On Essential Tools

Affiliate Marketing is a business that requires investment. It’s ok to invest less money when you have just started.

But when you are making a decent amount of money from affiliate marketing, you should invest money in it. It will enhance your growth at an accelerated rate.

There is no ultimate list of tools that you should invest in. It depends on the blog you run and products/services you promote.

Here are some of the tools that I’ve invested.

Thrive Themes Membership: Buying Thrive Themes Membership is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my blogging carrier. Now I am using FocusBlog as a theme, Thrive Leads to collect emails, Thrive Architect to design blog posts and other pages. Specially Thrive Architect has doubled my affiliate sales.

Thank you so much Istiak for this great informative post. I just started my blog 3 months ago. I have made some mistake. This post helps me a lot to understand how different types of post work on a blog. Now I’m pretty clear that I have to follow this different post types properly. Which is one of the big mistake on my blog :(